Psychological approach is also an effective strategy being used in business. Learning how to read the clients’ personality can give you advantage. This way, you will know how and in what way to approach them with your marketing strategies. You will be able to handle and build a good professional relationship with your clients.

In this era, the great battle is faced in the world wide web. Online offices for freelancers limits their capabilities to interact personally. Though it’s difficult to get to know a client online in a slightly personal level, it’s still an important step to make.

In this field of business, you will encounter different types of people. The ability to label or sort out the type of client is a very big leap to amplify communication with your clients and allows you to keep a good relationship.

Here are the type of personality traits that you are most likely to encounter in clients. It my push you to the edge, but remember, NEVER lose your cool.

1. The Passive-Agressive

This type of client may start out with a few words being passive, keeping the clear image of what they exactly want to themselves. And surprises you with a lot of detailed demands both minor and major changes, getting agressive only after you submit a project.

Identifying Characteristics

• Uncooperative and keeps a one-sided communication.

Makes statements such as:

• "I'm not quite sure what we're looking for."
• "Just do something that would appeal to us generally."
• "You totally missed the point of what we wanted."

How to Deal:

- Being extra patient is the way to go. Always expect for last-minute touch-ups and revisions, may help to defuse any aggressive behavior blow up. Keep your original layered design intact so that you can easily refine and modify it later (not that you wouldn't, but it does happen).  It also helps to make sure a contract specifies a limited number of revisions.

2. The Family Friend

This is the type of client whom you have known for several years either through family interaction or personal, and this connection has landed you the job. The relationship will be tested and perhaps marred forever by what could very well be a nightmare of a project. This type of client may demand a “special price” and take advantage of your bond. Sometimes, they may even not take your services seriously.

Identifying Characteristics

• These clients are easy to identify because… well, you know them.
• Makes such statements as:
  • "Could you just throw something together for me?"
  • "I don't want you to think that just because I know you I want you to cut me a deal."
  • "You're going to charge me what?! But we go way back!"

How to Deal

Dealing with such clients depend on how well you know them and how much you value your relationship with them. But always remember, that anyone who would take advantage of such a relationship is not truly a friend, so respond accordingly. A truthful approach could end up saving the relationship. But start off with a professional and not a personal, tone, and they may follow your lead. Of course, if you truly value the relationship, you may want to pass on the job altogether.

3. The Down-player

Like the family friend described above, this client will downplay your creative presentations. The difference: you don’t personally know this person. There is no explaination for their behavior. They feel they should get a "friend's" pricing rate not because they want to be friends with you, but because they do not see your work as being worth that much… even if they couldn't do it themselves. Not coming from a creative background or even having had exposure to the arts can mar someone's appreciation of the work that you do. After years in our field, we make it look easy, and that is what the down-player sees.

Identifying Characteristics

• Does not respond to questions in a timely fashion.
• Makes such statements as:
  • "It's not like it takes much effort on your part."
  • "Couldn't you just throw something together for me?"
  • "How hard can this really be?"

How to Deal

Play it with confidence. You know what your work demands and how well you do your job. The down-player will recognize this confidence. Don't hold back or concede a point to the client when discussing your role in the project. Standing firm will establish the professional and respectful tone you deserve. If the client does not respond in kind, cut your losses and decline their project.

4. The Critic

This client is never fully satisfied with the work you do and will constantly pick on minor details here and there that they dislike and want changed. Do not be surprised if they ask you to change these same details over and over ad nauseam. It is not a sign of disrespect (as it is with the other clients), but simply the nature of the person. They may have been burned in some other project and are now unsatisfied with everything in their path, including your work.

Identifying Characteristics

• Complains almost consistently about unrelated things.
• Personal outlook comes with a scathing bite.
• Makes such statements as:
  • "How hard is it to [fill in the blank with any rant]?"
  • "I'm really not sure about this element here. It just doesn't pop!"
  • "I don't think you are really getting it."

How to Deal

Once again, patience is important (especially if you have some sadistic reason for taking on nit-picking clients). Try to detach yourself from the project as much as possible, so that the constant nit-pickery does not affect you personally. It is easy to feel hurt or get defensive when your work is repeatedly questioned, and you may begin to doubt your skill. But understand that this is not about you or your talent; it is simply a personality trait of the person you are dealing with. And once again, protect yourself in the contract.

5. The Penny-pincher

This client has similarities to the critic and under-player but is actually impressed with your work and skill set. The criticize you merely to undermine your confidence in an attempt to lower your pricing rate. Unlike some other client types, the penny-pincher understands creative people and their processes. But they are cheap and manipulative, and their scheme may have worked in their favor once or twice in the past. So, they continue to subtly abuse the people they hire in the hope of saving every last penny.

Identifying Characteristics

• Compliments always come with a less-than-flattering qualifier.
• Takes time to respond to questions, sometimes making you ask more than once.
• Makes such statements as:
  • "I really like what you've done overall, but I'm unsure about one or two things."
  • "You may not have gotten exactly what we're looking for, but you're close."

How to Deal

Once again, it is all about confidence. Having a solid understanding of your field and being confident in your knowledge and abilities will keep this client's manipulation in check. Standing your ground and even calling the client on some of their tactics could shift the balance of power over to you. Be prepared to walk away from the project if the disrespect and manipulation continues. There will be other projects and other clients.

6. The "I-Could-Do-This-Myself"-er

Where to begin… When this type of client offers a project out to you, they make clear to you that they know how to do what they're hiring you to do but just too preoccupied to do it. They may be working at a firm or an entrepreneur; either way, you are there to pick up their excess load. If they're at a firm, you could be in for an interesting situation; they were likely hired for their particular style and proposals, and now you will have to please two sets of people: the person who hired you and the people who hired him.

Identifying Characteristics

• Will generally be (or look) hectic and rushed.
• Communication from them often takes the form of short bursts of information.
• Makes such statements as:
  • "I could easily handle this if my schedule weren't so full."
  • "Really? Not sure that's the direction I would've gone in, but whatever."
  • "Remember, you are filling my shoes, and they're pretty big."

How to Deal

The "I-Could-Do-This-Myself"-er will likely have recognized your talent and skill right away, which is why they hired you. They merely want you to know that this project (and thus you) is not above their ability. And though these reminders will grate on you periodically, they will let you run with your ideas, perhaps offering suggestions or feedback on the final design.

7. The Control Freak

This client desperately needs to micro-manage every little detail of the project, no matter their qualifications. No decision may be made without their explicit input and approval. This tiresome client forces himself into your workflow, heedless of either invitation or protest, and will demand access to you at whim. The concepts of boundaries and strict work processes are easily lost on the control freak, who constantly disrupts the flow. They may also believe you lack dedication or preparedness, further reinforcing their need to interfere.

Identifying Characteristics

• Initial contact is long, detailed and one-sided, with little input sought from you.
• Your input remains unsought as the project pushes forward.
• Makes such statements as:
  • "This way we can keep in contact 24/7 in case you have any questions, or I do."
  • "I really know best what is right for the project and what is not."
  • "What do you mean, I'm distracting you? I am the only thing keeping this project on track!"

How to Deal

If you absolutely must take on this client, for whatever reason, resign yourself to the fact that you will not be steering at any point. You will have to detach yourself from the work because you will have no control at all. You will merely be constructing, not designing, so just let go and let it happen. You may want to exclude this project from your portfolio.

8. The Perfect Client

This client, widely dismissed as a myth, does in fact exist and understands the full scope and artistry of your work. They value your role and creative contributions and want you in the driver's seat as soon as the project gets underway. They are timely with responses and payments… payments that they did not "negotiate" but rather accepted for what they are. They reflect on your suggestions and have confidence in your capabilities.

Identifying Characteristics

• Is enthusiastic about the project and your involvement in it.
• Communication shows awareness of and respect for your role.
• Makes such statements as:
  • "Here's the brief we prepared. The rest is pretty much up to you."
  • "We like what we've seen and trust you'll do great things for us."

How to Deal

Don't brag! Confusing confidence with recklessness will get you in trouble. It’s best to just enjoy the ride and hold on to them for as long as you possibly can!

*To Wrap it Up

Being able to identify the type of client you are dealing with will help you anticipate for the job ahead. It will also help you decide whether to accept the job in the first place. Your contract will emulate the power dynamics of the project, so the more you know about the client, the better able you will be to adjust the contract as necessary.

Do you love 1900′s all the way to 1980′s style or forget about  these vintage years even you’re in 2000′s? Nostalgic and old-fashioned look and feel in your design is one way to create the vintage and retro–inspired designs that you wanted. Mixtures of rich colors, grunge elements and various textures will make the perfect vintage and retro design for you.

In this post, I’ll be presenting 50 incredible vintage and retro photoshop tutorials for 2010.

1. Create a Funky Retro Wavy Text Effect in Photoshop

We are going to create a retro-colored psychedelic background, which we are then going to apply to some text. The purpose of this tutorial is to learn how to mask out an image so that it just shows through the editable text, making it friendlier to modifications later on. We will also work with layering textures to create a grungy retro background.

2. Make a Retro-Space Typography Poster with Colorful Lights

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stunning and high-impact retro-style typography poster that's out of this world.

3. Design a Retro Styled Poster

Learn how to combine patterns, textures and typography to create a retro styled poster. You will also learn how to manipulate shapes and images, in addition to integrating blending options and layer masking.

4. How To Create a Retro Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop

Follow these simple steps in Photoshop to create an homage to Apple, combining the retro striped Apple logo with a range of soft grungy textures to produce a detailed design with subtle touches of colour and tone.

5. Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop

The theme of retro futurism combines digitally created graphics and abstract shapes with distressed and aged textures, giving that cool mix of old and new. Let's take a look at how to create our own bright and colourful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop, using dynamic lines, vibrant gradients and rough textures to build up the design layer after layer.

6. Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration

This tutorial will cover some really cool illustration techniques, exploring Photoshop's vector capabilities as well as playing with textures and selection methods.

7. Create a Mock-Retro Poster Concept

This tutorial will teach you how to design a mock-retro poster. Learn how to manipulate photos and achieve a grungy, textured look.

8. Super Cool Retro Poster in 10 Steps in Photoshop

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a very cool poster in just 10 steps. We will use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, but you may use other tools

9. Design a Retro Futurism Space Scene

Learn how to design a retro-futuristic space scene, using a variety of lighting effects and photo manipulation.

10. Create a retro grunge typographic poster in Photoshop

After so many days of inspirational article writing, I have come up with another of my typographic tutorials. I was searching for some inspiration in deviant art and balance when I stumbled upon a rather, good-looking typographic art.

11. Retro Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial

Get inspired by this great looking retro poster in this great Photoshop tutorial thanks to UBL Tuts.

12. Create a Stunning Retro Futuristic Typography

In this tutorial, we will learn some really cool techniques to help us achieve a few aspects of Retro Futurism. We will be learning a lot of concepts, tips and tricks in Illustrator. We all also learn how to add the futuristic look using Photoshop.

13. How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I'll show you how to create a worn out, low-saturation-colored vintage beach ad in Photoshop. We'll use some beginner to intermediate level techniques such as the usage of brushes, editing colors, using filters, masking and a whole lot more!

14. Tutorial: Create A Retro Cosmic Design in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the Retro Cosmic designs made popular by James White of Signalnoise. All you need is a copy of Photoshop and some time on your hands. In this particular example we're going to create a retro cosmic rainbow but the techniques explained can be used in combination with any shape and colour.

15. Create A Retro Typography Design

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro typography design, you will learn the basics of typography and shape making in Photoshop CS3

16. How To Create a Retro Grunge Apple Wallpaper in 5 Easy Steps in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to create, a retro grunge Apple wallpaper, in Photoshop, just by following this 5 simple and easy steps. We will be combining Apple stripe logo with nice grunge texture and grunge brushes to create this beautiful wallpaper.

17. Creating the new retro

The two keys to this tutorial are to experiment and to have fun. There is no single, linear way to achieve this composition when so many variables are at work, so each small alteration can throw other elements into flux. I will offer you some guidelines and pointers, but it will ultimately be up to you.

18. Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography

In this tutorial, you're going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You'll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects. You'll also need Adobe Illustrator to create vector paths that will then be imported into 3ds max. This won't be a typical step by step tutorial, but more of a walk through of how I created this poster for a real client.

19. Create a Retro Design Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro style poster. This is not an advance tutorial but you should have basic knowledge of Photoshop.

20. Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster using some paper and grunge textures. You'll also learn some new tricks using the Wave and Motion Blur Filters.

21. Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper

this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a beautiful, vibrant, Retro-Pop abstract wallpaper. You'll also learn how to add some wonderful texture to your designs and make some abstract shapes!

22. Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

this tutorial, I'll show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design!

23. Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster in Photoshop

This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a vector Nintendo Gameboy in Illustrator and then using it to produce a cool retro poster in Photoshop.

24. Creating a Space-Helmeted Future Retro Illustration

I'm going to call it Future Retro for the sake of this tutorial.

25. How to Create a Retro Boxing Poster in Photoshop

Creating a retrograde look is nothing new, but there are some things to keep an eye out for when mimicking Graphic Design from any decades past. We'll be drawing inspiration from Poster Design from the 1960s, particularly Boxing Posters from that era. Let's get started!

26. Creating an Awesome Retro Collage

In this complex and long tutorial, we will be making this abstract photo collage. Lots of images are used with exciting effects. Along the way, you will be using different blend modes, filters and some advanced adjustment layer techniques.

27. Retro Geometric Vectors in Space with Illustrator and Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract image for a poster using Illustrator and Photoshop. We will do all the vectors and shades in Illustrator then in Photoshop we’ll give to the image a nice retro style using some textures and brushes.

28. Create a Retro Pop Art in Photoshop

We will be using Keeley Hazell image again for this Retro Pop Art tutorial.

29. Create a Retro Photo and Background

In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.

30. Creating A Retro Grunge Poster

This tutorial is an ad on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro.

31. Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter

In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.

32. Creating A Cool Vintage Collage Design In Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a retro-style design or vintage collage style. We will use images from old ads, handwritten texts, patterns, and other things to give to our design a vintage look.

33. How to Design a Rockin' 80's Party Poster

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to design a poster for an 80′s anthem party. Throughout this tutorial, we'll create some textures for background, manipulate a photo to give it a stylish look, and make some color variations. Let's jump into this super rad tutorial.

34. Hot Chick on a Muscle Car

In this tutorial we’ll fuse an image of a Muscle Car and an image of a Hot Chick into one cool retro postcard design. Learn some brush, texture, and layer techniques to create a classic image everyone wants to get ahold of.

35. Gigposter Design: The New Sex

So we're going to make a gig poster! Subject matter: Deftones and The Fall of Troy in Cleveland, Ohio at the House of Blues on May 30th.

36. Photoshop Serigraphs

Serigraphs are silkscreen prints that, in the hands of artists such as Andy Warhol, Michael Schwab and Antonio Reboiro, can be exciting, colorful, high-contrast images. We'll use Photoshop to create a serigraph-like look to a photograph.

37. Super Retro Game Cartridge Design

in this tutorial I will show you how to create a very easy, but really cool, 3D and geometric effect in Photoshop. After that, we will go a bit further and create our own retro Atari-style video game cartridge.

38. Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs

In this tutorial, I show you how to mix cool retro geometric shapes into your photos.

40. Retro Lighting – Ford Mustang

I get inspired by retro magazines and 70's lifestyle. My works are powerful, stylish and full of bright colours. I love to work with vectors, I think vectors can create amazing images with a clear and modern look.

41. Retro Text

Retro Text and Video Layers Retro text like this looks great but isn’t easy to create in Photoshop alone so here we use a mix of Photoshop and Illustrator, raster and vector to create some unique text. The second part of this tutorial explains video layers, something which is relatively new to most people. The final result will be an animated image that could be used for a web header.

42. How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect

In this tutorial we will be designing a cool retro text effect, which is growing more and more popular in today's design. Today you will learn how to use the Perspective tool to create depth and how designers can use default gradients in unusual ways!

43. How to Make a Planet Terror Style Poster in Photoshop

44. Create A Simple And Effective Retro Logo With a Soft Grunge Background

Today I want to explain a super-simple way to create a nice retro logo with an appropriate background. The final result, that you can see below, is adaptable for many uses in your web design works.
This tutorial aims to improve quality/time ratio, a decent design in few minutes (approximately 10-15 minutes).

45. Creating a Stunning Old-World Look in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are going to create a sort of old-world composition featuring a compass and making use of some awesome vector artwork from Arsenal.

46. Create a Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design

I'll show you how to design a simple but nice vintage pop art piece with some wear and tear. This is a basic to intermediate tutorial, so you don't need to be a guru to work with this effect and get an awesome result!

47. Create Vintage Traveler Diary in Photoshop

In this reader tutorial Nikola Lazarevic aka Colaja from Nis, Serbia will show us how to create a very stylish vintage traveler diary in Photoshop. We will mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the effect.

48. Designing a Typographic Concept Poster

In this tutorial I will take you through a few steps that will show you how I created a poster design.

49. Create a Vinyl Record with Retro Photo Sticker in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will go through the few steps to create a vinyl record and design a retro sticker for the same.

50. How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space Face

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a typographic face by using simple techniques. Using the Brush Tool and experimenting with light, you will get this amazing Typographic Space Face that looks like it's created by letters and an amazing explosion.